Craig A. Gibson is professor of Classics, and has been with the department since 1999. He teaches courses in Latin and Greek literature at all levels. His main areas of expertise are Greek and Roman oratory, rhetoric, and prose fiction.

Lindsay Vella is the Departmental Administrator for Classics, African American Studies, and the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa.

Dr. Robert Cargill's research program focuses on Second Temple Jewish literature and archaeology from the Persian period to the rise of early Christianity. He specializes in Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Pseudepigrapha, Aramaic Targums, Melchizedek traditions, issues of faith and science, and teaches Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Hellenistic Greek. He joined the University of Iowa faculty in 2011.

Mary Depew was an associate professor in the Department of Classics, and taught at the University of Iowa from 1990 to 2015. She taught courses in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, Greek religion and society, and Greek literature. Her research interests include Hellenistic poetry, Greek poetry, and Greek religion.

Helena Dettmer is an emeritus professor of Classics. She was a faculty member at The University of Iowa from 1976 to 2021. She received a B.A. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her publications include two books, Horace: A Study in Structure and Love by the Numbers: Form and Meaning in the Poetry of Catullus.

Paul Dilley is Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Religions, with a joint appointment in the departments of Classics and Religious Studies, where he is Director of Graduate Studies. He specializes in the religions of Late Antiquity, particularly early Christianity, with an approach that integrates cultural history, philology, and the digital humanities.

John Finamore is a professor emeritus of Classics at The University of Iowa, where he taught from 1983 to 2022. He was chair from 2002-2007 and 2012-2018. He teaches courses in Greek and Roman Philosophy, Word Power, Greek, and Latin.

Tyler Fyotek earned his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Iowa in 2017. His dissertation, advised by Professor Paul Dilley, is titled, "Deathics: Homeric Ethics as Thanatology."

Peter Green, Dougherty Centennial Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, followed his wife Carin here in 1997, and is now an adjunct professor and the Editor of Syllecta Classica. His main classical interests are in Greek history and literature (Hellenistic in particular), and Roman elegy and satire.

During Professor Jackson's 28 years at Iowa, he periodically taught a graduate seminar in Greek paleography and oversaw publication of five of his students' seminar papers. He also supervised five doctoral dissertations on Greek paleographical topics.

Colleen is the Senior Academic Advisor for the Departments of Classics, History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Ethics & Public Policy. For Classics, she is the primary advisor for all Ancient Civilization and Classical Languages majors.

Ed Keogh started the Ph.D. in Classics program in the Fall of 2015. He taught in the Rhetoric department for two years, worked as an editorial assistant for Syllecta Classica, and is currently a teaching assistant in Classics.

Robert Ketterer received a B.A. from Lawrence University and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Classical Studies from the University of Michigan. He taught at Iowa from 1988 to 2022. His research interest is in Greek and Roman drama, and its reception in the classical tradition, with a special focus on 17th- and 18th-century Italian opera.

Joshua Langseth received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in 2013. His research interests include ancient philosophy, ancient Greek religion, ancient Roman religion, and archaic Greek poetry.

Marcia Harvey Lindgren received a bachelor’s degree in education from Southern Connecticut State University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in classics from The University of Iowa. She served for ten years as an assistant to the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The University of Iowa, during which time she also taught courses in the Department of Classics.

Peter Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in both Classics and Religious Studies, studying Late Antique religions of the Eastern Mediterranean, pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities. His primary research interest is monastic communities in the Syriac tradition during the decline of Roman control of Syria and the rise of Islam.

Rosemary Moore holds a joint appointment as a lecturer of Classics and History, and joined the faculty in 2003. She teaches courses in ancient Greece, Greek history, and Hellenistic Greece and Rome, among others.

Laura is a teaching assistant in the Department of Classics and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies. She holds a B.A. in Classics from Reed College, and an M.F.A. in Literary Translation and an M.A. in Classics from the University of Iowa.

Michael Overholt earned his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Iowa in 2016. His dissertation, advised by Professor John Finamore, is titled, "The Practice of ἌΣΚΗΣΙΣ in Galen’s Avoiding Distress."

Tyson is a third-year graduate student and teaching assistant in Classics. He earned his B.A. in History and Classics from the University of Utah. He is interested in historiography and the historical method in the ancient world.

Luke Perez earned their B.A. at Saint Mary’s College of California with majors in Classics and Integral Liberal Arts. They are a third-year graduate student at the University of Iowa, with an appointment in the Rhetoric Department as a teaching assistant. Luke’s other interests include critical literature, an intense love of ducks, and biking.

Jonathan Reeder is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classics. He teaches courses in ancient medicine and a variety of others concerning the ancient world. His research centers on the interface between medicine and philosophy in Greek and Latin literature.

Adrienne K. Ho Rose is an interdisciplinary scholar, translator, and writer. Her academic work focuses primarily on Latin, Greek, and Classical Chinese languages and literatures with special emphasis on the poetics of retranslation, experimental, intersemiotic, multimodal translation practices, east-west cross-cultural literary studies, translation and humanitarian crises, and world literatures.

Rachel Rucker is a graduate student and teaching assistant in the Classics department. She holds a B.A. in Classical Languages from the University of Oklahoma with a minor in History. Her research interests are emotional representation and expression in Homer, and the development of early Medieval Latin texts.